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From Our Research Team:

Beyerdynamic Headzone — The First Portable 5.1 Control Room

Maintaining our position at the forefront of music technology isn’t always easy, but it certainly is a lot of fun. We make new and exciting discoveries all the time when traversing the cutting-edge. The latest is the new beyerdynamic Headzone Professional 5.1 Monitoring Headphone System. Headzone is the first mobile headphone system that allows you to take a virtual 5.1 control room with you wherever you go. A Headzone for the home is also in the works, so home theater enthusiasts can get the full surround experience at any hour of the day. If you like living on the edge, the cutting edge that is, it’s time to get in the zone, the Beyerdynamic Headzone.

Beyerdynamic Headzone PRO at a Glance:

• Professional portable headphone monitoring system with virtual 5.1 reproduction.
  
• Create a custom virtual 5.1 control room with environment simulation software
  
• Headtracking fixes your listening location and compensates playback dependant on your movement.

Headzone: The first portable 5.1 control room
beyerdynamic introduces Headzone, the first mobile headphone system that allows professional monitoring with virtual 5.1 reproduction. Thanks to Binaural Environment Modelling“ technology and patented ultrasonic-headtracking, Headzone creates a sound sensation that’s as real as reality itself – available in a compact, transportable headphone monitoring system. Headzone – the innovation from the inventor of headphones.

Room Modeling
With Headzone’s advanced environment simulation software it’s easy to model the sound of a loudspeaker system (up to 5.1) and to recall it at any time. The parameters that affect sound in a real room can all be adjusted virtually: the position of the loudspeakers in the room, their distance from the listener, the size and also the acoustic qualities of the room. So it’s you who decides the audio environment in which to work at any time.

Headtracking for Localization and Spatial Awareness
Headzone makes sound an experience. Through the use of the ultrasonic-headtracker system, Headzone permanently detects the position of your head and adapts the source audio playback position accordingly. Unlike traditional headphones, turning your head does not affect the localisation of Headzone’s sound. As in a real environment, when using Headzone the virtual speaker or sound source is located in front of, next to or behind you depending on how you turn your head, therefore simulating the “sweet spot” in your control room. The result is so effective that you completely forget that you are wearing headphones.


Beyerdynamic Headzone PRO Features:

• Beyerdynamic Headzone PRO is a virtual 5.1 monitoring system
  
• Parameters that affect sound in a real room can be adjusted virtually
  
• Headtracking provides perfect localization and constant spatial awareness.
  
• Base station: 1U half-rack/desktop unit
  
• 6 analog audio inputs
  
• Digital 5.1 audio-input via FireWire connection (IEEE1394)
  
• In “bypass mode” the unit can be used as a reference stereo headphone amplifier
  
• DT 880 PRO studio headphone (250 ohms) with integrated ultrasonic exciters
  
• Standard 6.3 mm jack plug
  
• Uncolored, wide audio reproduction
  
• Can be used as a standard stereo headphone
  
• Headzone Rail and Clip: Headtracker ultrasonic receivers with flexible clip to mount Headzone Rail to computer displays or for use as a stand or wall mount adapter
  
• Software Control Panel
  
• All parameters are adjustable save individual setups
  
• Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Mac OS X
  
• Audio Drivers: ASIO, WDM, Core Audio

With the Beyerdynamic Headzone PRO, you can take a virtual 5.1 control room with you wherever you go.

Specification Detail Open/Closed Semi-open Fit Style Circumaural (Around the Ear) Driver Size 45mm Frequency Response 5Hz-35kHz Impedance 250 ohms Cable Length 9.8 ft. Cable Type Coiled Plug Size 1/8" (1/4" Adapter Included) Weight .65 lbs. Manufacturer Part Number 490911

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